Word: strong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seventh, Harvard stopped B.U.'s effort to drive up the score with three straight outs. Unfortunately for the Crimson, B.U. returned the favor by turning in a strong infield performance and ending Harvard hopes for an upset after only three batters...
Harvard's defense, led by Maggie Vaughan, Cici Clark and Nicole DeHoratius, has shown itself adept at frustrating strong offensive attacks and will concentrate its efforts today on Moellering...
...weak, and we are all so strong...
...Mayor for Life. But that's what Los Angeles' Tom Bradley is turning out to be. The man the Wall Street Journal calls the "recumbent incumbent" has just been elected to a fifth term, squeaking by with a 52% majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform of "the most ambitious sewer-improvement project in the nation." On election night, he talked about a new literacy program, public...
While many children's publications do not accept advertising, others see strong commercial opportunity in young readers. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED publisher Donald Barr calculates that children between the ages of nine and twelve spend $5 billion annually and influence their parents' spending of $40 billion more. SI FOR KIDS, which has sold $7.5 million in advertising since its January debut, distributes 250,000 copies of each monthly issue free to 1,200 underfunded schools in the U.S. to encourage literacy...